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Prabakaran
Prabakaran

Reputation: 599

Culture changes in C# (Language changes)

I have a string "Sunday", i want to change this Polish(Poland) . How can i change. I try to use Iformateprovider

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1060

Answers (4)

Jeppe Stig Nielsen
Jeppe Stig Nielsen

Reputation: 62012

If you have some DateTime value dateTime, then you can use

dateTime.ToString("dddd")

to produce the day-of-week name in the current culture, or

dateTime.ToString("dddd", new CultureInfo("da-DK"))

to produce it in another culture (here Danish (Denmark)).

If you want the "source" of these day names, use

string[] dayNamesPolish = (new CultureInfo("pl-PL")).DateTimeFormat.DayNames;
string[] dayNamesEnglish = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.DateTimeFormat.DayNames;

To actually translate a string, do this:

string stringToTranslate = "Sunday";
int idx = Array.IndexOf(dayNamesEnglish, stringToTranslate);
string stringResult = dayNamesPolish[idx];

This works even though the FirstDayOfWeek is not the same in the two cultures (Polish has Monday as the first day).

Upvotes: 1

Alexei Levenkov
Alexei Levenkov

Reputation: 100630

You need to get `IFormatProvider" from culture you want. I.e. 

 new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("pl-pl").DateTimeFormat.DayNames[0]; // niedziela

Or to format current DateTime into just day of the week:

var day = String.Format(
   new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("pl-pl"), 
   "Now:{0:dddd}", DateTime.Now);

Upvotes: 1

Ravindra Bagale
Ravindra Bagale

Reputation: 17673

see this National Language Support (NLS) API Reference , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb896001.aspx

Upvotes: 0

paulsm4
paulsm4

Reputation: 121881

Basically, you need a different "resource" for each language:

The "English" resource would contain the word "Sunday", the "Polish" resource the word "niedziela".

Upvotes: 2

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